English

Matrix factorizations, Reality and Kn\"orrer periodicity

K-Theory and Homology 2022-05-26 v2 Quantum Algebra

Abstract

Motivated by periodicity theorems for Real KK-theory and Grothendieck--Witt theory and, separately, work of Hori-Walcher on the physics of Landau-Ginzburg orientifolds, we introduce and study categories of Real matrix factorizations. Our main results are generalizations of Kn\"{o}rrer periodicity to categories of Real matrix factorizations. These generalizations are structurally similar to (1,1)(1,1)-periodicity for KRKR-theory and 44-periodicity for Grothendieck-Witt theory. We use techniques from Real categorical representation theory which allow us to incorporate into our main results equivariance for a finite group and discrete torsion twists.

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@article{arxiv.2204.13645,
  title  = {Matrix factorizations, Reality and Kn\"orrer periodicity},
  author = {Jan-Luca Spellmann and Matthew B. Young},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.13645},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

31 pages. v2: Typos fixed, results slightly strengthened

R2 v1 2026-06-24T11:01:48.005Z